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Clemente Polo

Doctor in Economic Sciences and Professor of the Foundations of Economic Analysis at the Autonomous University of Barcelona from 1992 to 2020. Advisory Member to the Presidency of the Government presided over by Felipe González from October 1990 to February 1993. Advisory Member of the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI) from January 2003 to March 2005. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Abad Oliba CEU University in Barcelona. Founder of Ciudadanos, he is a regular contributor to newspapers such as El liberal.cat and Expansión and the author of essential books such as "Social Security: institutional analysis, modelling and simulation of policies", "The Catalan Question II: Fiscal Balances and Fiscal Treatment of Catalonia" and "COVID 19: The Great Disappointment".

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Articles by Clemente Polo

National Macroeconomics

The lack of Budgets does not freeze spending, it allows the Government to increase it without accountability

By Clemente Polo

It is believed that the Government must adapt its policies to the allocations assigned in the extended PGE, those of 2023. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, spending on "personnel" and "goods and services" grows by 13.8% and 11.7% in 2023-25. The lack of PGE does not freeze spending but allows the Government to increase it without accountability.

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10 Feb 2026

Ukraine: four years of war

International Macroeconomics

Clemente Polo || On 24 February, four years of conflict will have passed. Of propaganda and disinformation. Of an unjustifiable invasion that is easy to understand in light of the facts that the autho...

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